Was bornin Pictou County, ,Nova Scotia, in 1832. He came to the United States
and settled in Boston, Massa­chusetts, in 1848, thence going to Bath, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, in 1851. There he resided,
until, coming to this State, in 1860, he took passage on the steamer “Ariel”
to Panama, thence on the steamer “Golden Age” to San Francisco, where he arrived
in August of that year. On the 25th
of that month he came to this County, settling at Columbia, where he has since
resided. Here he mined for about six
months, and then (on April 1, 1861) was appointed Agent for the New England
Water Company, which posi­tion he has held down to the present time. Mr. Fraser married Rebecca S. Kelly, in Bath,
Maine, on May 23, 1860, and has had seven children, six of whom are now living.